Young man perishes in Kansas accident

Family and friends are grieving for a young man killed in an electrocution accident last week.

Dakotah Holt, a 2011 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School, was following his chosen career as a lineman in Kansas Thursday when a new power pole he and other workers were setting up fell against a nearby power line after wind twisted it from the grapple hooks on a boom truck, according to news reports quoting the Barber County Sheriff’s Office.

Holt, 20, an apprentice lineman with Track Utilities and 29-year-old Michael Rowan of Garden City were touching the pole as it was energized from the line.

Holt was taken to a hospital in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, where he later died. With less severe injuries, Rowan was taken to a burn unit at a Wichita hospital.

After graduating from LRHS, Holt attended Northwest Lineman College in Meridian, Idaho. He was living in Sharon, Kansas, according to his Facebook profile, where he worked for Meridian-based Track Utilities, Inc.

“He was the kind of person that (it didn’t really matter who it was) if he could make your day better, he would do that,” said Hanna Doughty, a good friend who graduated with Holt in Coulee Dam. “When he did touch your life, it was instantaneous.”

A 7 p.m. recitation of the Rosary will be held at St. Henry’s Catholic Church in Grand Coulee on Friday. A memorial mass is scheduled there for 11 a.m. on Saturday.

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Services set for Dakotah Holt

Dakotah Steven “Koda-Bear” Holt was born November 2, 1992, in Spokane, Wash ., and left us much too soon Thursday, August 29, 2013, while doing the work he loved as a lineman in rural Medicine Lodge, Kan.

Koda-Bear was a 2011 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School where he excelled in football, basketball, wrestling and golf as a player and coach. Following high school, Dakotah completed the course of studies at Northwestern Lineman College in Meridian, Ida ., beginning employment with “Track Utilities” in January of this year.

In addition to sports of all kinds, Koda-Bear loved spending time with his brothers in the out-of-doors hunting and especially fishing. The only time Dakotah was ever heard to complain after a fishing trip was on those occasions when he was out-fished!

A member of Grand Coulee’s St. Henrys Catholic Church, Koda-Bear is survived and greatly missed by his loving family – mother Stephanie Anderson (John Pachosa); father Steve Holt (Gena); siblings: Jared Holt, Kyle Holt, Colton Fisher, Scott Abrahamson and Brooklyn Barker; grandparents: Andy and Marie Anderson, Arnie and Carmen Holt and Sue and David Palmer as well as many – many other extended family members.

Cremation has taken place. A recitation of the Rosary will be conducted for Dakotah at Grand Coulee’s St. Henrys Catholic Church at 7 p.m ., tonight Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, followed by a 11 a.m. Memorial Mass on Saturday, September 7, 2013.

Donations for Dakotah’s family may be made to an account at any branch of the Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union.

Friends and family are invited to visit Dakotah’s online register book at http://www.stratefuneralhome.com. Strate Funeral Chapel of Grand Coulee, Washington is very honored to be serving his family.